Posted:30th Jul 2007went to Play as a beginner, came back with some contact moves pinned down and more to practice

sneakily watched Flame Boy teach someone five beat weave with a staff, got that pinned And also learnt SNES and halos from him in workshops. Got to work on Jesus and the variations of things like that. Cheers to SpankDonkey for showing me the basics of fishtails to I'll have them sorted by Christmas!

Fingers crossed, I'll be confident enough to start double staff when I move up to Stoke in September!

Posted:2nd Aug 2007a full steve goes up and down both arms with no gripping, so round neck up arm, round wrist back down arm (inside) and across thoat up other arm (on inside) then back down again and repeat I got a good few revolutions of that on the saturday when I was in full staff mode.

half steve is only using the outside of the arm I think or just going down one arm and up the other.

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.

Posted:12th Aug 2007i got fishtails!! do you know how long it's taken me to finally get them!! granted it's only backwards and only on my right hand but i'm still very happy! and thank you to those who taught me many new contact staff moves at Play - you're alll stars my matrix is coming along nicely! and Sandy, if you read this, i did a steve without wacking myself in the head! a triumph i feel i'm hoping to nail most of the rest of my new moves for falmouth - can't wait!